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decision is better than the other. i have people in my family who feel very passionately on the opposite side of this one. it's up to you, some people feel keeping a person alive is the thing to do. others feel it would be a loss of dignity and humanity. but it's important to make a decision and put it in a living will. thanks. good evening. everyone. tonight, the terror inside a packed nightclub that in a matter of minutes became a death trap. some trammelled to death in the panic. more than 200 are dead. arrests have now been made. what went wrong and who is responsible? also later, dodging the norovirus that's sweeping the country. we'll tell you how it's sweeping so fast and how to avoid the new strain of the stomach bug. >> we begin keeping them honest, looking for facts, not trying to support republicans or democrats. our goal is to find the truth and call out hypocrisy. today, eight senators floated a
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sweeping immigration reform plan that would among other things give illegal immigrants already in the united states a path to citizenship without first sending them home. they seemed to send a signal that mainstream republicans may be willing to compromise on an issue president obama calls a top priority for his second term. here is what senator mccain, one of the senators behind the plan, said yesterday. >> look at the last election. look at the last election. we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons. and we've got to understand that. second of all, we can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. >> mccain is talking, what some republicans call the 27% problem. obama had strong support from latinos, 71% to romney's 27%. and romney's showing is part of a bigger trend. republican candidates have steadily been losing latino
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support. 27% was down from mccain's 31%, which was down from george bush's 41%. considering all that, what is probably the most interesting thing about today's announcement was how much it looks like earlier efforts to end immigration reform. earlier efforts that were hardly bipartisan with the main sticking point being the a word, amnesty. >> i have never will and never have supported efforts for blanket immigration amnesty. >> i don't support amnesty. i don't support special benefits. >> essentially, granding amnesty to many illegals is outrageous. >> amnesty. many of them need to be sent back. >> that ended with senator mccain. that's worth noting because before he was supporting a plan that would allow illegal immigrants already here to stay. you see there he was against it, but before then, he was for it.
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back in 20005, he worked with the late senator ted kennedy on an immigration bill that was backed by the bush white house. it would have included what critics call amnesty, only then they weren't calling it that. >> we're off to a good start on immigration reform. >> i'm not running to do the easy things, so i defend with no reservation, our proposal to offer the people who harvest our crops, tend our gardens, work in our restaurants, care for our children, and clean our homes a chance to be legal citizens of this country. >> on the issue of illegal immigration, a position which -- a position which obviously still provokes the outspoken opposition of many conservatives, i stood my ground, aware that my position
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would imperil my campaign. >> at a moment of great difficulty in my campaign, when my critics said would be political suicide for me to do so, i helped author with senator kennedy comprehensive immigration reform. >> that bill ultimately collapsed in the senate. fast forward to january 2013, senator mccain is back where he started. as he said himself, look no further than the last election and you'll see his party feels they need to change some things up. after cnn's latest polling shows more than half of americans say allowing illegal immigrants to become legal should be the focus of the policy. all of this a day before president obama is set to release his own immigration reform proposal. he'll lay out his plan in nevada tomorrow. let's talk about it right now. gloria borger, cornell belcher, and margaret hoover. gloria, let me start with you. what is so different this time around for republicans? is it simply the reality of
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november's election? >> yeah, they're worried about their own survival as a political party. one way to survive as a party is to broaden your base and not remain hostage to a single part of it. i think that has been the problem for the republican party. when you talk about john mccain, when john mccain was challenged from the right in 2010, when he was running for re-election to the senate, he became much more conservative on immigration policy. now i think he's sort of unshackled and he's back to the position that he was in in 2005 and 2007. i mean, you know, i spent a lot of time with him on that straight talk express when he was running for the presidency in 2007. and i remember him telling me that he was stunned at the vitriolic reaction within his own party to immigration. now, it's about survival, so that's why you see them getting together with the democrats. >> cornell, this is how senator menendez explained this
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bipartisan push yesterday. first of all, americans support it in poll after poll, secondly, luteatino voters expect it, thirdly, democrats need it. do you think that sums it up? >> i think so. some of the clips you showed showed the dilutional misthinking that was put forth, the strategy out of the last presidential election. i think this was -- this last election was a wake-up call to say it's not going to become less diverse. and the long-term problem for republicans is this, more and more younger latinos entering the voting age, and they're increasingly identifying with the democratic party. long-term, you know, democrat/republican, long-term as a strategy, their position allowing illegal immigration is not tenable when you look at colora colorado being a battleground. >> how do you convince latino
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voters you have had a change of heart and this is not just manipulation. >> look, it would be much less convincing if republicans didn't actually have a strong history of fighting for this. i was in george bush's administration when we put serious reform on the table and tried to get this through. ultimately, we lost to the right wing, and we also lost democrats who were in no position and no mood to do favors for george bush at the time. what is different now and what is key about today is this is a bipartisan congressional effort and it was congress' and the senate's effort to get in front of the president because if this becomes too identified with the president, he's a polarizing guy, it can't be obama's immigration package. it has to be partisan from the beginning and then we stand a chance. enough new coalitions have gotten together and become stronger. i call them bibles, badges, and business. the evangelical community, who
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is largely hispanic, the badges of the law enforcement community is for this, and business is for this. >> one of the reasons the white house is waiting, because first of all, these people seem to be doing kind of well on their own. it's sort of the opposite of health care. you know, nobody wants the white house to present a bill now. lots of people wanted him to present a bill on health care reform, and he didn't. now, so long as they're working together, why spook republicans? you know, just sit back. the white house is ready to pounce at any given moment if this all falls apart because the democrats really want to push immigration reform, because quite frankly, it's in their own self interest to do so. the white house right now, the strategy is sit back, let these folks try and work this out. don't spook the republicans in the house. and let's see if they can do it. if not, we'll take over. >> i do think there is a bit of
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the evil work triangulation going on. listen to mccain and other senate republicans talk about the spirit of bipartisanship around this issue in the senate. i think those guys over there also see congress is less popular than a root canal, so there is some triangulation going on with folks in the senate versus what is going on in the house. i think there is triangulation going on in the democrats and republicans. and it's remarkable, both democrat and republican senators are basically speaking from the same set of talking points around immigration, talking about a sort of fair but tough pathway. we never see democrats and republicans talking from the exact same talking points. >> we didn't hear much about this from president obama during the first two years he was in office, and you know, they had democrats in congress. >> well, you know, a little context on here. we had this thing called the great economic recession where we were in a nose dive. i think the president was mostly focused on pushing a similar
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package through and sort of pulling our country out of the economic nose dive. i cut him a little slack for not focusing on immigration in the first two years. >> go ahead, gloria. >> i have to say that, you know, this could fall apart. i mean, you know, there are a lot of holes to be filled in here if you look at this proposal, because it's not legislation. and you know, citizenship is contingent upon enforcement. that's a big thing as far as republicans are concerned. well, how do you in the end say, okay, our borders are enforced, and therefore we can establish a pathway to citizenship? it ain't over yet. >> and it's not, also, there's this sort of notion, how are you going to get republicans on board? republicans, mainstream republicans have been for some kind of comprehensive immigration reform for a long time. it was the right pank of the party that derailed it last time. you have people like jeff blake who used to identify with the right plank who is part.
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>> everybody running for president on the republican side was on the same page about this. we haven't heard from the other republicans. >> the new phase is interesting because you have jeff blake who was in favor of jan brewer's very controversial immigration law. he was in favor of that. he's in favor of this, he's in favor of these principles. right wing talk radio folks are saying let's hear what marco rubio says. let's give him the benefit of the doubt. >> margaret, do you think sort of house republicans, where the tea party caucus, as small as it may be, they really control what speaker boehner was doing, and you have lamar smith coming out, calling it amnesty. >> i wouldn't let the wing nuts define the policy. you have paul ryan with decent legislation. you're going to get mainstream republicans. >> paul ryan is trying to write a bill. paul ryan voted, you know, not to go over the fiscal cliff. paul ryan is probably running for president, and he sees the
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writing on the wall. that's why he wants to get a deal on immigration reform. >> gloria, appreciate it, cornell, margaret, thanks very much. just ahead, describing disturbing new details about the deadly nightclub fire in brazil. more than 200 people died. club was filled to twice its legal capacity. imagine being stuck in a club like this when 2,000 people are still inside. police have made arrests. eye witnesses describe the panic. also ahead, it's hard for any parent to imagine losing a child to gun violence, but you're going to meet a mom who lost all four of her children, gunned down in the chicago streets. [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle.
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we're getting word of arrests in brazil following that deadly nightclub fire in santa maria. at least 231 people died as flamed quickly engulfed this nightclub. the fire may have started by pyrotechnics used by the band playing on the stage at the time. today is the first day of an official three-day mourning period in brazil. here's a look at just how quickly a night of fun turned into an unimaginable tragedy for so many people. at 2:30 a.m. on sunday morning, the kiss nightclub in santa maria is jammed with young people. a band has been performing for about 20 minutes, finishing off
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one of its songs with a pyrotechnics show, shooting sparks into the air. the acoustic foam insulation on the ceiling starts fire, quickly spreading. the partygoers realize something is wrong, a stampede breaks out. the club is packed to nearly twice its legal capacity. some 2,000 revelers in their late teens and 20s, according to state officials. but there's only one exit, down a dark, narrow hallway that is soon jammed with people trying to escape and quickly filling up with smoke. people fall to the ground and are trampled. security guards at first block the exit. >> when i was trying to get out, they stopped me, and i yelled fire, fire! but the security guards were not realizing what was going on. i think many of them thought they were just rioting or the people were trying to get out without paying. >> the crowd panicked and finally pushing past the guards, just as parts of the roof begin to collapse. but now the building is split
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with hundreds still trapped inside. some club goers end up in the bathroom, perhaps looking for another way to get out. eyewitnesses outside the club say they hear screams of people trying to escape the building. volunteers with sticks and bats try to break through the nightclub's thick wall, a desperate attempt to help. survivors of the fire say once they were outside, they went back to the jammed entrance to try to pull people to safety. some say they pulled people out by their hair. in the end, 231 people are dead. most by smoke inhalation. some were trampled. a guard says it took just two minutes for the fire to spread to the entire club. of the survivors, hundreds were injured and taken to the local hospital. authorities say piles of bodies were found inside the bathrooms. eyewitnesses call it a scene from a horror film. by daylight, hospitals in santa maria were packed with people looking for family members among the survivors. and a makeshift mother wrgue wa
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up to identify the bodies. rescuers said the sound of cell phones from the deceased rang in the air with one phone showing 100 missed calls. what can you tell us about the arrests so far? >> today, they announced this is the big news today. the four arrests. two of the people are owners of this club where this huge inforno took place, and the other two people were actually members of the band that were playing and that put on a big pyrotechnics show when the fire started. so it's pretty clear this is the direction the investigation is going. they want to take a look at the evacuation precautions set up at the club, whether or not the people could get in and out safely, and also what caused the fire. was it the pyrotechnics show as so many people speculated? >> at this point, it seems that not even basic safety precautions were in place, right? >> it doesn't seem like there
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were any basic safety precautions. the fire extinguisher they tried to use to put out the fire on the ceiling, it didn't work. there was one exit in and out. the place was way over capacity. there was only one way in and out. there were no fire escapes. even when people tried to escape when the fire first started raging, the body guards at the very intrngs pushed them away, thinking people were just trying to get out of the building without paying. so clearly, there are a lot of regulations violated here. >> do you think more people are going to be arrested? do some of these security guards that wouldn't let me oument, or is that just considered an accident? >> it's definitely a tough call. even some of the survivors have said they were standing at the door and at first, the security guards thought they were just trying to get out without paying their bill. here in brazil, when you go to these nightclubs, you get a ticket at the door, and with each drink, they give you a little point. you only pay at the end. they say it wouldn't be the first time that fights broke out
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at this club and they tried to get out without paying. so i don't know how much they'll be held responsible. it might be a bigger picture, what was the club doing to set up an establishment that was safe in these kind of emergency situations. >> i understand it's a pretty small city, a college town. what kind of impact has this had there? >> you can't underestimate the impact here. i'm in a crowd of several thousand people who are starting to march down the street towards that kiss nightclub. chants are starting right now. everybody you ask in this town knows somebody or knows of somebody who was either in that nightclub or was killed. all along this boulevard here, we saw people crying, hugging each other, holding on to each other. it seems that in this town of about 250,000, no one has escaped. it's also a town of innocence. people were celebrating the commencement of a new school year. some people were graduating. that's what the people were
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there for, to celebrate, not to die. that's what has hit so hard in this town. it's really impossible to underestimate. >> i appreciate it. thank you very much. >> we'll continue to follow that. you can read more about the deadly nightclub fire and what caused it on cnn.com. up next, one mother's battle against guns. she has lost all four of her children to gun violence. the latest this past weekend. what she has to say about the push to change gun laws. >> plus, reports of a monkey in space and high the state department is concerned. coming up. music: "make someone happy"
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welcome back. president obama and vice president biden met with police chiefs and sheriffs at the white house to discuss ways to curb gun violence.
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the white house is pushing congress to approve an assault weapons ban in a step that they hope will avoid other mass shootings. the police chiefs who each faced deadly shooting sprees each year, were at the meeting. also there, the police chief of chicago where too many people are dying due to gun violence. there were more than 500 homicides in chicago last year, and that's up more than 30% from the year before. so far this year, 40 deaths, and we're not even out of january yet. just this weekend, nine people were killed in shootings across the country. among them, a 33-year-old man. his mom is mourning his loss tonight, and she knows the pain all too well. this is her fourth child to die due to gun violence. she spoke to ted. here's his report. >> it's hard. it's very hard. no mother, no father should ever go through this, ever. >> this is hour shirley chambers likes to remember her children, four happy kids and a mother beyond proud. then in 1995, she began losing
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them one by one. not to disease, not to car accidents, but to gun violence, all right in her own neighborhood. carlos was first, then 18 years old, it happened after an argument with a friend at school. >> next day, he came back and he shot carlos on the street. >> five years later in april of 2000, it was 15-year-old la toya, shirley's only daughter. >> she was beautiful. she just -- she had it all. she was my baby. yeah. la toya. >> la toya was accidentally shot by a 13-year-old who had somehow gotten ahold of a gun. >> he was trying to shoot someone else and he shot -- hit la toya. >> then three months after la toya was killed, shirley's oldest son jerome was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting. >> jerome was 23 when he got killed. >> at that point, all she had left was ronny. they stuck together for more than a decade, pulling each other through the tough times, and then last weekend in front of this tree on chicago's near
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southwest side, he, too, was killed. gunned down while sitting in a car. ronny was 33. he had been living with shirley, which is the way she wanted it. >> i wanted to keep him close because he was the only one left. >> he didn't ask nobody for nothing. >> loverne has known the family all her life and described shirley as a good mother. >> that woman was the best mother out there. she did everything in the world for her children. it's not her. it's the people out here. >> you feel guilty? >> i feel no guilty at all because i did everything i possibly could for ronny. i was there for him. i was a good mother for him. i did everything. he knew he could depend on me. he knew he could come to me for anything. >> shirley says solving gun violence requires stronger sentences for people convicted of gun violence, and in her community, she said people who witness shootings need to tell police what they know.
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>> they're going to be in the same situation one day and you want someone to say something for you. somebody has to do something. this is crazy. this is getting out of hand. >> cnn, chicago. >> what should be done? that's the focus of our town hall discussion this thursday. we'll have representatives of all sides of the debate. i hope you join us for that. a lot more happening tonight. isha is here with the 360 news and business bulletin. >> nearly three months after superstorm sandy slammed into the northeast, today, the u.s. senate approved more than $60 billion in aid for victims of the storm. the bill got caught up in bipartisan fighting for weeks. >> former israeli prime minister aerial shurron is showing brain activity when family members speak to him even though he's been comatose for seven years. that's according to doctors treating the 84-year-old. medical experts warn it's not proof he will wake up or that he's conscious of sounds. >> a change in the netherlands.
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the queen announced she would abdicate her throloep in april her son. she has reigned for 33 years. and in iran says it has launched a monkey into space. the u.s. state department says it has no way of confirming the report but says it is concerned. if it's true, they could launch long-range missiles. just for the record, the u.s. was the first to launch a monkey into space. >> thanks very much. you probably heard the warnings about this year's flu outbreak reaching epidemic proportions. now there's concerns about the spread of innorovirus. if you don't know what it is, believe me, you do not want to get it. dr. sanjay gupta joinses me with how easee it is to spread it. >> and also, a former member of warren jeffs' polygamist sect
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up close tonight, a surprising new look at life inside the fundamentalist church of latter day saints. it's a polygamist sect run by warren jeffs. th they revere jeffs as a praufrt and take orders from him even as he sits behind bars for sexually assaulting some of his sect's youngest members. rudy was one a child bride, and her story of leaving the church is something we have rarely seen. gary tuchman spoke with her and went back inside the flds community to see what jeffs' followers have to say. >> rudy has accomplished something very few women in warren jeffs' fundamentalist polygamist church have done.
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late last week, she escapes. how old were you when you got married? >> 14. >> how old were you when you had your first baby? >> i was 16. >> and ruby escaped with those babies, six of them. babies she had with a husband that is still in the church. >> do you still believe that warren jeffs is the prophet? >> no. >> warren jeffs, the self-pro z self-profezzed prophet of the flds is now serving a life sentence in prison, but he continues to rule with an iron fist from his cell. he forced many young girls into marriage. most never leave, but ruby said she always dreamed of leaving. hoping to get out of the twin towns of colorado city, arizona, and hilldale, utah, where most flds members live. but taking children away from a husband who is obedient to the church and warren jeffs is extraordinarily difficult. just days ago, this was the emotional scene.
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ruby getting temporary custody from a judge. these pictures show ruby being reunited with her children after this man, her husband, had allegedly kept them away from her for weeks. >> arizona law is very clear that one parent cannot keep another apparent from their children regardless of their religion. >> ruby then took her children and escaped into the outside world. author and private investigator sam brouwer shot the photographs. >> the children were estacstatio see their mother. it was wonderful to see the looks on their faces when they saw their mom. >> ruby was raised by her father, mother, and two sister whi wives. she has 30 brothers and sisters. the man she was forced to marry is her second cousin. the man who presided over the wedding is warren jeffs. when she went to the alter, ruby was in ninth grade. she never went to school. she is divorced from reuben barlow, a man she said she never
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loved. we went to the house they shared to try to get her husband's response to all this. mr. barlow? everybody who is loyal to warren jeffs puts before their doors, zion, it shows they're still devoted. we weren't able to find him. >> i want to ask if you know haven barlow. but we talked to his neighbor who said he's a fine father. as far as ruby goes, he's not so found of her. >> she says she doesn't believe that warren jeffs is the prophet prm. how does it make a man like you feel? >> she's full of crap. she knows he is. >> i'm sure that if i went back to the community, i would not be welcomed. >> how does that make you feel? >> in a way, really good. in a way, i'm very sad. >> ruby's mother is still there. and so are almost all of her siblings. but her sister flora left the church many years go and has been working for years to get ruby out. >> i am just in awe that i have
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her. the most amazing thing in this whole world. >> the county investigator who has devolted years to try and help people who want to leave the flds said the court ruling is a landmark moment. >> i think it's going to serve as an knexample to them that mae they can get out, maybe they can seek help. >> there have long been allegations that the police in the flds community have actively worked to stop other parents in the community from leaving with their children. now the arizona attorney general said he's conducting a criminal investigation of that police department. >> i'm extremely outraged and i think it's the biggest injustice i know that's going on in my state. >> the cops in the marshal's office never talked to reporters, but the attorney representing them sent us an e-mail saying in part, there has been no proof or evidence affany type of wrongdoing whatsoever. ruby said there's a lot of wrongdoing to go around, led by warren jeffs, who continues to utter bizarre revelations. >> he did not want any child to be born in this wicked
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generation. >> warren jeffs said that from jail? >> yes. >> so you were not allowed to have relations with your husband anymore for the last few months. >> the last year. >> the last year? >> the last year. the only relations you could have with your husband is a hand shake and no longer than three seconds. >> a three-second hand shake? >> uh-huh. >> ruby and her children are currently living in her sister's house in phoenix. she has no job, no high school diploma, and little knowledge of the outside world, but she said there's no turning back. >> i want to raise my kids. i want to be free. be able to make my own choices, to be happy. >> are you happy today? >> i am. i am very happy. >> gary tuchman, cnn, phoenix. >> tom sheehan is a sheriff in arizona where many of the members live. ruby was able to get her kids with help from your office. are more people from that community reaching out for help
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from your office or the attorney general's office? >> we believe they will, anderson. what has happened is we were able to show that we are helping those that want to get out of that community and help ruby get her children away from that culture. and i think that's going to be opening the doors for allowing others to get out of the community. >> one of the things that has always amazed me about the flds is that this area continues to live really under its own rules, its own law, or at least tries to. your department start eed patrolling the area. what are the biggest challenges you face? >> the biggest challenge is what they call the marshal's office, the city police department. colorado city is an incorporated city, have their own city government, police department, fire department, and municipal services. and the marshal's office or city police department, as i call it so we don't get confused are nothing but an extension of the security service for the church. when people want to leave the church and get away from that type of living, they try to stop them. they hide them out, and they
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conspire with the elders in the church to keep this from happening. >> how has this been sort of allowed to continue in 2013? i think that's what surprises a lot of people on the outside. >> in arizona, it's unique, or maybe it's not unique to other states. there's no really mechanism available to decertify or do away with the entire police department. now, many of the officers that have worked there have been decertified over the years and they have lost their ability to continue to be law enforcement officers. they have been involved with warren jeffs, communicating with him when he was on the run and on the ten most wanted list for the fbi. they refused to testify before a grand jury. they have been involved themselves in child molestation. so the attorney general is assisting us with a grant to provide extra law enforcement up there. it's been a great help, and we're making probably the most advancement that we have in that area in the last couple years, and have been in 100 years.
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>> it's obviously very isolated in many ways and people don't watch television, but if some members of the community are able to see or hear this segment tonight, what would you say to them. >> they can contact the mojave sheriff's office at any time and we'll make sure they're protected from the people in the church, from the marshal's office. we're there to provide fair and unbiased law enforcement services. >> i appreciate you being with us. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> still ahead, if you're not sig right now, chances are you know someone who is or has been. a new strain of norovirus, often called the stumming flu, is going around. washing your hands isn't enough to avoid it. plus, dramatic video of a rescue involving a baby, a duffel bag, and rising floodwaters. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.
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[ woman ] i love the convenience of adt. i can finally be in two places at once. [ male announcer ] call today and get adt for less than $2 a day. helping protect your business is our business. adt. always there. we all know what the flu is. this flu season has been nasty, but there's something else going around making a lot of people sick. it's called norovirus. it's very contagious, and unlike the flu that is a respiratory virus, norovirus is without getting too graphic, a stomach bug. if you get the norovirus, you'll
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spend some time in the bathroom. a new strain is sweeping across the united states, and the cdc says you can get it from another person, contaminated food or water. even just touching contaminated services. we have dr. sanjay gupta. what exactly is norovirus and how do you know if you have if or another kind of a stomach bug? >> there are all sorts of different viruses, the flu virus. this is another category of virus. you don't always know if you have this versus another form of flu, but it comes on very suddenly, and you really get distri quite sick from this. it usually lasts two to three days or if you have a mild thing where it lasts overnectomy, it's probably not the norovirus. about 20 million people, it's estimated, will get this in the united states alone. it's something that a lot of people are going to experience. i think even secretary of state, former secretary of state clinton, when we talk about her fainting episode, a stummiomach,
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they speculated it was norovirus then. it's quite common. >> how easily is it spread? i read something from the cdc saying it can live on surfaces for up to a couple weeks? >> it is everywhere, it can live on surfaces. on your clothe, food. it's something that is really all around us. it is definitely hard to protect yourself. people talk about washing your hands, which we talk about all the time. but also think about your food, your laundry, think about surfaces around you, making sure you're cleaning those things as well. i'll give you one thing i learned. hand washing dishes, for example, may not be good enough because you can't get the water hot enough to kill this virus. eating off dishes that have been washed in a dishwasher with hot water, same thing with the laundry. >> do hand sanitizers work to kill it? >> they don't work really well. it's interesting because they work pretty well against the flu virus that we were talking about
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before, but with this, it seems somewhat resistant and you really have to scrub your hands quite hard. we talked about the fact that you sing happy birthday twice in your head as you wash your hands, but soap and water seems to be your best bet, but again, the idea of touching things and then touching your nose and mouth. we all do this subconsciously a couple hundred times a day. you have to pay more attention to that because that's one of the more common ways to get sick. >> if you do come down with it or thing you've come down with it, what do you do? is there treatment, do you take antibiotics? >> antibiotics are for bacterial invections, this is a virus. the big problem with this is that people become dehuderated. so as hard as it is, you have to keep as much fluids down as you can. this is particularly true for the elderly. there are hundreds of people who die from this every year, and usually it's from dehydration.
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unfortunately, there's no particular medication. try to get as many fluids down as you can and stay home so you're not infecting other people. one thing i'll point out, you start to get contagious before you get sick. >> now that we have completely freaked people out, the good news is it only lasts two or three days. >> it lasts two or three days and again, you'll sort of know it if you have it, but try not to infect others. >> thank you. >> you got it, anderson. >> let's get you caught up on some of the other stories we're followi following. isha is back. >> the boy scouts of america say they're considering changing their long-standing policy of banning epi banning openly gay scouts and leaders. this is after protests with many scouts giving back their medals. >> one man's family said he's in critical condition after the x games. he slammed into the ground while
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attempting a flip, and then the out of control mobile sped through the audience. >> the first night of deadly riots in egypt. hundreds of people flooding the streets. violating the government's curfew put in place after dozens died in previous nights of violence. at least one person was killed today. a pair of australian radio jocks who prank called the duchess of cambridge are now off the air for good. and anderson, an incredible rescue caught on tape. this is a scene in australia where rescuers needed to air lift two women and a baby out of a truck that was stuck in rising floodwater. the baby went first. the safest way to get it into the chopper, as you see there, was in a bag. >> oh, my god. wow. >> wow, all three made it to safety, but the child was seriously freaked out, as you
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would imagine. >> of course. that's great that they got them all to safety, though. >> yeah. >> time for the shout out. like many kids his age, 2 1/2-year-old zach loves dinosaurs, so his parents took him to a park exhibit they thought he might enjoy. they didn't expect this. >> what is that? >> run, zach. >> are you scared? >> run! run! >> oh. >> poor little thing. look at him go. he's like, i didn't sign up for this. poor baby. >> poor kid. not nice. all right. coming up, isha, a case of marijuana with a very unlikely perp.
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time now for the ridiculist. tonight it seems some evidence that been disappearing from a police storage facility in wichita, kansas. not just any evidence, though. here's a public information
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officer for the wichita police department. >> we had evidence clerks doing their job and noticed that one of the packages had been gotten into. and that particular package had some marijuana evidence in there. >> someone is stealing marijuana from an evidence storage facility. luckily, the police have an idea of who's behind it. >> we do have a sketch artist that came. and did a rendering of who we believe is responsible for the marijuana heist. we're currently looking for something that resembles a mouse like this. >> lieutenant doug nolte, aka, the greatest public information officer in the world. i love the sketch artist rendering of the suspect, although that mouse looks pretty alert, and if i have watched anything from watching dan rather report, it's how to spot
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a stoned mouse. >> this mouse is doing what a mouse normally does, but this mouse just had a dose of thc, and he's not going anywhere. this mouse is definitely high. >> there was a lot of science in there about how marijuana affects the brain. personally, i just like hearing dan rather saying, this mouse is definitely high. i'm thinking about making that my ring tone. our favorite lieutenant explains what they think happened after conducting a very thorough, you know this is coming, joint investigation. >> we believe what happened are mice that were looking for a place to stay or perhaps some food, decided to choose those packages. they chewed through the packaging, and in the process, there were at least three packages that were damaged in the small amount of marijuana was evident to have come out of the packages. >> so the